This article contains the results of a survey of public secondary schools in Pennsylvania to determine their compliance with the State Board of Education Mandate to teach an interdisciplinary American Cultures course. For journal availability see SO 504 433. (Author/RM)

The Pennsylvania Training Model's Educational Planning System for teaching the severely/profoundly handicapped is described. (Author)

This collection of papers is the outcome of the National Academies' effort to glean information from six different case studies of student-perpetrated school shootings. Part 1, "Case Studies of Lethal School Violence," includes: "The Copycat Factor: Mental Illness, Guns, and the Shooting Incident at Heritage High School, Rockdale…

Focusing, as educational change agent, on three examples: the Philadelphia Parkway Program, the Camden Educational Development Program, and the Brandywine Educational Park in Wilmington, Delaware. (JM)

Reviews strategies used by Pennsylvania school food service directors to attract more students and keep down costs in the wake of National School Lunch Program cutbacks. (JBM)

A questionnaire survey of 331 Pennsylvania public school teachers gathered data on their attitudes toward Early Retirement Incentive Plans (ERIPs) and on their demographic and job characteristics. The results show teachers strongly support the ERIP concept, chiefly because of their desires to pursue second careers or leisure pursuits. (RW)

Presents three quizzes designed to test student awareness of Pennsylvania's historical and economic relationships with the rest of the world. (AM)

Presents results of a survey of secondary English teachers, film teachers, and film coordinators from two Pennsylvania counties regarding the purposes of film use, types of films used, objectives of film teaching, screening activities, analysis during the film, filmmaking objectives, and high interest courses. (JMF)

Reviews the progress of 62 state-funded service-learning programs in Pennsylvania schools during 1992-95. Each site completed an extensive annual program profile, tracked student service and hours, and was visited by an evaluation team member who observed actual implementation. Success depends on organizational commitment, service-learning…

Examines the perceptions of superintendents and school board members in Pennsylvania with regard to state academic standards and standardized test. Finds that superintendents and school board members differ in their knowledge of standards, the ideological position they take on testing, and the degree to which they believe testing has been…

Pennsylvania's distance education programs are a part of a national and international new trend in educational delivery. Planners need to work closely with school district officials and teachers in designing facilities that will enhance this new educational technology. (Author)

A study to determine the behavior of business education teachers relative to their adoption of the microcomputer as a tool for delivering instruction received 203 responses from a sample of 400 teachers. The majority favor the use of microcomputers and use them for delivering instruction. (JOW)

A Pennsylvania school board member says that outcome-based education provides the context within which teachers can lead students to imaginative thinking and critical reasoning, whereas the traditional approach to education relies on memorization rather than thinking and analysis. (MLF)

Butler County (Pennsylvania) Vo-Tech motivates better attendance and achievement through an incentive program with tangible rewards such as the Win-a-Car contest. A two-day self-esteem program involves action-oriented experiential learning activities designed to develop leadership, teamwork, self-esteem, and problem-solving skills. (SK)

Uses Pennsylvania census-derived variables to show that state, district, and school comparisons of National Assessment of Educational Progress scores often reveal little about program effectiveness. Differences in test results are attributable to differences in difficulty of educational task, which is related to populations served by different…